TIL Burning Man has a fucking airport. USA, man.
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
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@gerikson It’s all about experiencing the beauty of nature and appreciating the fragility of our planet by driving thousands of miles in air-conditioned gas guzzlers before burning even more fossil fuels and a small rainforest of wood you get there. But it’s okay because you have to take your trash home with you.
Shit, I spent 5 hours this morning experiencing the beauty of nature. It's right outside.
ah, but did you approach it with a startup mindset
shudders
sorry reminds me of this particular billboard ad that ran in Sydney. Just couldn’t make my brain interpret the “how did I get here?” in the positive sense they intended. Even the look on the girls face… it’s like sadness in her eyes. Anyway, there you go
Same as it ever was.
bet they wish the protestors had made them turn around now lmao
Imagine the smell.
They probably want to have the toilets septic tanks drained once a day, so uh... good luck with the sewage trucks I guess
I guess we're going to find out just how committed they are to taking the trash when they leave.
They don't at the best of times.
I think the main problem people will face is overflowing septic tanks and then 70k people looking for places to poop that aren't the increasingly threatening portapotties. Like, day one you're not going to be able tell if that's mud or poop on the floor, and there's definitely going to be urine mixed in even if it is mud. If you were storing your food or water on the ground, um... Good luck
Trash works a little differently, I think. Food trash people are comfortable with dealing with, mostly. I think a lot of the kitchy hippy crap that gets waterlogged will get discarded, as well as soiled clothing. People generally don't want to take plastic bags with poop in them in their cars.
But also some people take the trash thing way less seriously than others, and if you do take all your own trash how willing are you to take another camp's worth?
(Our local one has a clean up volunteer group that goes a few weeks after so that the land can be used as a barley field during other parts of the year, the fact that that's necessary says that there's a decent amount of clean up to do)
Hope the VCs are ready for a wave of survivalist tech product pitches
Fyre Island II: The Enshittenning
Nothing makes my heart quiver quite like tech bros, mud and a sea of overflowing porta-potties.
I think this belongs over in TechTakes rather than SneerClub; it doesn't seem TREACLES-focused.
Is it possible to move posts if you mod both?
it seems like it isn’t possible, unfortunately. it looks like the lemmy devs are finally starting to work on more mod tooling, so we may see some improvement here soon; if not, it can go on my queue as I get back into modifying our version of lemmy
D'oh you're right. I will do better in the future.
advanced supermudtelligence
brown goo scenario
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What if the shrimp in the playa are flesh eating?
They've been playing the long game. It's all been building up to this.
Pity bout ya! I hope your private plane sinks in the mud
the woodstock 99 sequel nobody expected
Apparently now "a death is being investigated", which is a form of passive voice I have not yet encountered.
Also, "shelter in place" is one of those examples of American English that I really don't get. I suppose it's something from school shootings? Or hurricanes?
@gerikson Police state is coeming. Shelter in place citizen and await the civility drones.
In Texas, it certainly does not mean the police state is coming. If anything, maybe a come of hicks with badges to stand around for 15 minutes, but usually just means "stay were you are because we don't know wtf to do and aren't funded to do anything anyway."